Freight container car



Aug. 7, 1934. G. c. wooDRUl-F FREIGHT CONTAINER CAR Filed Aug. 13, 1931 2 Sheets-Sheet A118- 7, 1934. G. c, WOODRUFF 1,969,391

FRE IGHT CONTAINER CAR Filed Aug. 13, 1931 2 Sheets-Sheet. 2

Patented Ang. 7, 1934 The L. Corporation, alco'r ,rationvof'Delas i f Ware , Application August- 1.3, 193,1,`

sensi Nfss'a'ii i g claims. i(c1. 1115+366) 'j My invention relates to improvements in the type of container cars, such for instance, as thati shown in my `Pa'tent.1,754,451 April 15, 1935.1

The object of my invention is to provide means to center the container lint-its proper position of 'the car.

A further object of my invention is to countersink the centering means in the ioor of the car, while constructing such centering means as to avoid the necessity of perforating the floor and "projecting a part of the centering means therethrough, and providing a centering means which reinforces a side sill and an adjacent floor supporting beam and which in turn is reinforced o* .by its connection therewith; and with these and ""other objects in view my invention consists of the parts and combination of parts hereinafter pointed out.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of a portion of a "'car underframe with the flooring removed showing my floor sockets in position.

Figure 2 is a transverse section of a car underframe showing my invention with the car floor in position.

" Figure 3 is a top plan view of a support.

Figure 4 is an end elevation of Figure 3. Figure 5 is a side elevation of Figure 3. Figure 6 is a top plan view of the floor socket.

As shown in my Patent 1,754,451, the container i centering floor sockets consist of castings secured yto the surface of the car floor. It is the purpose of this invention to countersink these centering means as will now be described.

v, For the purpose of illustrating my invention, I

Vvmhave shown only a part of the car 1 which may be of any approved construction.

The underframe of the car has center sills 2, side sills 3, and cross plates 4, the floor beams 5,

being supported on the plates 4, as clearly shown Figure 2.

A gusset, or angle iron 6 is riveted to the plate 4 through its bottom flange, one side of the plate 6 being parallel with the inner face of the side 4'sill 3. An angle iron 7 is secured between the 9-vertical side of the gusset 6 and the side sill by means of the rivets 8, the top arm of the iron 7 yprojecting inwardly from the side plate as clearly shown in Figure 2.

A support for the socket comprises a plate or Y*casting 9 having a downwardly and outwardly deected flange 10 at one end, from which a flange 11 depends, said flange being provided with openings 12, adapted to receive the-bolts 13 y by means of which the support is secured, at one end, to the floor beam .5,.theother :end of thei support being secured by rivets 14 yto the angle'` ironz7.. The front, rear and side edges ofthe support are downwardly. and .outwardly deflected in the form of flanges,.as at 1'5, thebody of the plate extending upwardly from said flanges in the form of a flat horizontal boss which lies above the level of the upper faces of the sill and floor beam.

The floor socket 16 is of dished form and is provided with an upturned ange 18 extending around its entire perimeter and has rivet holes 17, through which the rivets 18EL pass whereby this socket is rigidly secured to the support 9.

The support 9 has a drain hole 19, and the socket has a drain hole 20 which align when the parts are assembled to permit of the escape of dust, cinders, rain and snow.

It will be noted that the floor boards 21 are arranged with their upper faces flush with the upper edge of the top wall of flange 18 of the socket 16 while the bottom of the socket is depressed below the level of the upper faces of the floor boards.

The only purpose of these sockets is to center the containers on the car; they do not prevent the containers from tilting on the car, as I depend on the walls of the car and abutments on the car to prevent the containers from tilting. It is to be understood that the bottom ends only of the legs of the containers (not shown) are intended to rest loosely in the supports, and not to be attached thereto, and the only purpose of countersinking the supports is to reduce the heights to which it is necessary to raise the containers to remove them from the car by a lift truck, the practice being to run a lift truck under a container on a car and elevate it sufficiently to clear the legs of the container from the oor of the car, as disclosed inmy Patent 1,807,268 May 26, 1931. In my Patent 1,754,451 the supports extended above the plane of the car oor which necessitated raising the container higher'than is necessary with the countersunk support.

In the present construction this is avoided by constructing the supporting plate with an upstanding boss located above the level of the side sill and floor beam to which it is attached and above the level of the bottom surface of the licoring and below the level of the top face thereof, and making the sockets 16 in the form of a shallow pan-like socket member with a flat bottom part which rests upon said boss. By this construction it is unnecessary to have the socket member pierce the flooring, as in my prior construction, in which the socket forming part of i cars of the container car type, said support being y adapted for attachment to a side sill and' a'oor beam of the underframe of the Acar and compris- Y, Y y Y,

' 4for passage of fastening members forsecurng theV ing a rectangular plate formed with an upstanding central boss intersecting one of its sidev edges and spaced from its remaining three side edges,

thus forming anges at the latter-nanled''side edges, a fourth flange depending from one of said flanges alongside the floor beam, said flanges having openings. for passage of fastening means for securing the same to: the side sill and floor beam, and acontainer engaging floor' socket com'-` prisingk a shallow pan-likebodyvhavlng a horizontal bottom portionv resting on said bs, andfastening means passing through the bottom of the socket and boss and securing the same together.

2. A floor socket support and socket for containers used in connection with railway freight cars of the container car type, said support being adapted for attachment to a side sill and a iloor beam ofthe underframe of the. car and comprising a rectangular plate provided with a drain opening and formed with an upstanding central boss intersecting one of its side edges and spaced from its remaining three side edges, thus forming flanges at the latter-named side edges, a fourth flangev depending from one of said flanges alongside the oor beam, said flanges having openings same to the side sill and door beam, and a container `engaging floor socket comprising a shallow pan-like body having a horizontal bot- -tom portion resting on said boss and provided ciRAHAi/IA C. WOODRUFF. 

